Referral criteria
- Difficult-to-control emotional symptoms
- On ventilator support
- Patient or family psychological or spiritual/existential distress
- Patient or family request
- Patient, family, or physician uncertainty regarding prognosis and/or non-beneficial treatment options
- Pre-existing palliative care patient
- Symptoms refractory to palliative symptom protocols

See reference for more information.

Adapted from Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Palliative care referral criteria: COVID-19 context. Internet. Available at https://www.capc.org/covid-19/palliative-care-referral-criteria-covid-19-context/. Accessed on October 6, 2020.